Courgette Ratatouille with Summer Savoury: This ratatouille recipe is really an early summer dish – when the first vine tomatoes are really ripe and there are young, fresh courgettes available. Very simple to make, it keeps well in the fridge for three or four days, works cold with a salad or warmed up to serve […]

Smoked Hake with Raggmunk, Prawns and Cream: Occasionally I get invited to take part in a cookery challenge. A bit like a simplified version of Masterchef but thankfully all in the safety of my own home, I get sent a batch of ingredients and invited to make something. On this occasion, I was sent a […]

5:2 Diet Hake with Saffron Sauce: One of the challenges of a fasting day on the 5:2 diet is making the food I eat interesting without piling on calories. Fish is a really good solution and I am still using some lovely fish that was sent to me by When I was in Boscastle, one […]

Hake with Tomatoes and Potatoes for the 5:2 Diet: It’s turned very cold today and I’m keen to have a warm meal as part of my 5:2 diet fasting day. This is a low-calorie version of a dish I saw cooked by Paul Harwood at Boscastle Festival a few years ago. The flavour comes partly […]

Fish Barbeque in Sussex: I’m not planning on posting recipes in this blog. Most of what we did was very simple and I hope this inspires you a bit to experiment. In my case I was lucky enough to have some hake, salmon and wild herring fillets to play with. As always it was fabulously […]